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Re: woody ignores my .emacs



<luc.lefebvre@mcgill.ca> writes:

> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Henrik Enberg wrote:
>
>> <luc.lefebvre@mcgill.ca> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have been using a .emacs file for a while and would like to keep on 
>> > doing so.  With my new Woody install emacs appears to be ignoring it.  I 
>> > have tried emacs -q, emacs -debug-init <to see if my .emacs was rejected 
>> > because of some bug>, emacs -no-site-file, have added (setq 
>> > inhibit-default-init), all to no avail.
>> 
>> What happens if you do C-x C-f ~/.emacs?  Do you get the correct file?
>> 
>> 
>
> When I do as you say, I get my .emacs file <which is not loaded at 
> startup>...

Hmm, this is really strange.  It sorta sounds like you $HOME variable is
screwy at the time you start Emacs,  But I have no I dea what could
cause it.

What are the file permissions for ~/.emacs?  I have 0644 FWIW.

-- 
Booting... /vmemacs.el



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